Human and General Microbiome

Integrated metagenomic and metabolomic analysis reveals distinct gut-microbiome-derived phenotypes in early-onset colorectal cancer – Cheng Kong – Gut

A decrease in functional microbiomes represented as Faecalibacterium affects immune homeostasis in long-term stable liver transplant patients – Soon Kyu Lee – Gut Microbes

Longitudinal study of the vaginal microbiome in pregnancies involving preterm labor – Yoshiko Sakabe – Fujita Medical Journal

Oral microbiome and serological analyses on association of Alzheimer’s disease and periodontitis – Kuan-Lun Fu – Oral Diseases

Review: Ultra-processed foods and human health: from epidemiological evidence to mechanistic insights – Bernard Srour – The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Beneficial Microbes, Compounds and Interventions

Dietary Fiber Modulates the Release of Gut Bacterial Products Preventing Cognitive Decline in an Alzheimer’s Mouse Model – Daniel Cuervo-Zanatta – Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Functional and safety characterization of beneficial vaginal lactic acid bacteria for the design of vaginal hygiene products – Jessica Alejandra Silva – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Butyrate-producing Eubacterium rectale suppresses lymphomagenesis by alleviating the TNF-induced TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB axis – Haiyang Lu – Cell host & Microbe

Review: The double-edged sword of probiotic supplementation on gut microbiota structure in Helicobacter pylori management – Ali Nabavi-Rad – Gut Microbes

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Functional Redundancy in Bat Microbial Assemblage in the Presence of the White Nose Pathogen – Matthew Grisnik – Microbial Ecology

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs caused an outbreak of inflammation and oxidative stress with changes in the gut microbiota in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) – N Hodkovicova – The Science of the Total Environment

Bees under interactive stressors: The novel insecticides flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor along with the fungicide azoxystrobin disrupt the gut microbiota of honey bees and increase opportunistic bacterial pathogens – Yahya Al Naggar – The Science of the Total Environment

Plant Microbiome

Host genotype controls ecological change in the leaf fungal microbiome – Acer VanWallendael – PLoS Biology

Suaeda salsa Root-Associated Microorganisms Could Effectively Improve Maize Growth and Resistance under Salt Stress – Yongdong Wang – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Regulation of immune complex formation and signalling by FERONIA, a busy goddess in plant-microbe interactions – Zhikun Duan – Molecular Plant Pathology

Food Microbiome

A systematic, complexity-reduction approach to dissect the kombucha tea microbiome – Xiaoning Huang – eLife

Bioinformatic Tools and Microbiome Analysis Techniques

ProbeTools: designing hybridization probes for targeted genomic sequencing of diverse and hypervariable viral taxa – Kevin S Kuchinski – BMC Genomics

A machine learning framework for discovery and enrichment of metagenomics metadata from open access publications – Maaly Nassar – GigaScience

MetaProClust-MS1: an MS1 Profiling Approach for Large-Scale Microbiome Screening – Caitlin M A Simopoulos – mSystems